Fox Cooks Up More Plans For Gordon Ramsay As ‘Masked Singer’ Leads Rob Wade’s Busy Reality Season – But Where’s Tom Brady?

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Fox has packed its fall schedule with a number of unscripted series and given its plum post-Super Bowl spot to Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef.With Thursday Night Football moving to Amazon, Fox is cooking up the return of Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, one of the four shows fronted by the Brit chef for the network with more to come.

Lego Masters also moved from the summer to follow The Masked Singer, which returns for its eighth season.All of this highlights the continued importance of reality television to the relatively new incarnation of the broadcast network, the unscripted charge led by president of alternative entertainment and specials Rob Wade.Wade told Deadline that “it’s been a pretty busy year”.“There was a lot of late moves and changes,” he said. “It’s quite an interesting time because we’ve got the Super Bowl, which changes the whole complexion of your schedule.

Suddenly you’re trying to build around that.”Where the network may have usually launched the return of a show like Next Level Chef, a culinary competition series that stars Ramsay, Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais as well as a $250,000 grand prize, in March, it wants to take advantage of the biggest domestic sporting event of the year.“You wouldn’t normally necessarily launch show a February,” he said. “But it moves it up if you’re going to launch around the Super Bowl, when you’ve got all of that traffic coming to Fox.”Fox, which is a partner in Ramsay’s production venture Studio Ramsay Global, is essentially creating its own extended universe with the formerly sweary chef.

It also has Food Stars, a Shark Tank-esque format, originally launched on the BBC, that sees up and coming food and drink entrepreneurs fighting for angel investment.“We’re probably